Current state of the global ABS market – A tale of cautious optimism?
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Darragh Culley is an Investment Director in the Institutional Retirement division of Legal and General which is the UK’s largest Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) solution provider. His focus is on Investment Business Development with a particular area of interest in Structured Finance in the context of UK insurance regulatory reforms. Before L&G, he worked for 8 years as a Director in the Structured Finance team in Aviva Investors originating a variety of private assets for the Aviva UK insurance and 3rd party clients. His educational background includes a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin and a MSC in Financial Maths from Warwick University.
Chris is Head of European & US ABS based in London. He is responsible for investments and strategies across these sectors and is lead Portfolio Manager on the Challenger IM Global ABS Fund.
Chris joined Challenger Investment Management in 2021 and has over 15 years’ experience across securitised and debt financing markets. Prior to joining, Chris was a Director at 400 Capital Management (400CM) where he focused on European structured credit and helped establish the European office in January 2016. He previously worked at Kinson Capital, a structured credit advisory firm specialising in risk management, structuring and complex valuations, and started his career at Dresdner Kleinwort IB.
Chris holds a Masters of Mathematics degree from the University of Bath, has a CIPM Certificate and is a CFA Charterholder.
Andrew joined Federated Hermes in April 2018 and has 25 years’ experience working in financial services, of which 20 years has been in managing structured finance as a portfolio manager. In his role, he is responsible for structured credit investments across multi-asset credit portfolios. Prior to joining, Andrew was the lead portfolio manager for European ABS at BlackRock. Prior to BlackRock, Andrew was the lead portfolio manager for ABS at ECM (European Credit Management, subsequently part of Wells Fargo Asset Management) where he managed a team of specialists managing dedicated structured credit funds and allocations within wider multi-asset credit funds. Andrew started his career in financial services at Goldman Sachs in London where he worked alongside the European and emerging markets equities trading desks. He holds an MA in Modern and Medieval Languages from Cambridge University.
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